Fertilizers
were applied at the rate of 235 g Urea, 155 g of CSP and 510 g of MOP per
plant in June, 1991. During the season plants were basin irrigated at weekly
intervals. Plants were allowed to grow vegetatively during this season.
Fungicides and insecticides were applied accordingly to control diseases such
as Downey mildew, Rust and leaf eating caterpillars.

12.
Remarks:

Plants
were not pruned to induce flowering during this season. Twenty-six plants
were affected by fire on 25th of July. However, 18 of these burned plants
were rehabilitated with heavy pruning.

Plants
were irrigated weekly during drought periods due to low rainfall during this
season as compared to previous Yala seasons.

14.
Other information

This
trial is a long-term trial and it will take about 4 - 5 years to examine the
performance of these varieties in this region. At present experimental
observations are made on growth habit, pests and diseases and flushing
patterns of the plants.

This
trial was planted in February 1991. All the foreign varieties were highly
susceptible to Pithium root rot and a large number of plants were dead about
two months after plantings. Those vacancies were re-planted using seedlings
treated with Captan but with little success. Therefore, this trial was
abandoned.

Fruit
yield showed a great variation form plant to plant. Fruits were more or less
normal in size and had a thick, rough skin with a yellow color pulp. Well
mature fruits with a dark yellow pulp were very sweet. With this level of
yields having 1111 plants/ha, it could be expected to get in average 2.8 T of
fruits (= 20,000 fruits) per hectare in the Yala season with no irrigation.

It was observed that
some fruits with dark yellow pulp were very sweet. This indicates that
sweetness increases with further maturity. Therefore, it is very important to
leave the fruits in the tree for a sufficient period of time until they are
fully mature to get good quality fruits.

Cultural practices described in the Vegetable Variety Testing
Guidelines were followed.

15.Results:

Yield characteristics and disease severity of carrot varieties
tested are presented in the Table 1. These data were not statistically
analyzed because the yields were very low.

Table 1. Yield, tuber size and percent loss of carrot plants
due to soft rot at the time of harvesting.

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VarietyTotalTuberTuberLoss due

YieldYieldSizeto disease

(t/ha)(t/ha)(g)(%)

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Cape Market1.971.063294.7

CT-225 Kuroda1.570.803596.3

CT-226 No12-ACA-03 1.040.506098.4

CT-228 Berlioum4.792.202582.5

CT-229 Flakkee3.621.894093.1

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Plants were heavily infected by soft rot. By the time of
harvesting less than 20 % of the original number of plants remained in the plots.
In addition to the diseases, smaller tuber size also caused lower yields.

Cultural
practices described in the Vegetable Variety Testing Guidelines were
followed.

18.Results:

Ten
tomato varieties were tested in this trial and only seven varieties had
fruits set. Varieties KWR, T-245 and Caribo did not set any fruits at all.
Also the yields were very low for other varieties in this trial. Therefore,
the data were not statistically analyzed and are presented as average values
of four replicates in the
Table 1.

Table
1. Number of picks, fruit weight and average yield oftomato varieties.

Though
all varieties flowered 20 - 27 days after transplanting, most flowers dropped
without pollination probably because of very high temperatures prevailed
during the end of June. Very low yields in the varieties which had set fruit
is due to lower number of fruits set as a result of poor pollination and
smaller fruit size as shown in the Table 1.